Feminine hygiene products for vaginal douching may expose users to potentially harmful chemicals known as phthalates, a small study suggests. Researchers did urine tests to detect phthalate exposure ...

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Dear Dr. Gott: Is it safe to douche with bleach mixed in water? My daughter got very upset when I told her I do this. They used to print on the label of Clorox that it could be used as a douche, but ...

To douche or not to douche? Definitely not, is the answer from the National Institute of Environmental Health Studies, who has just revealed the results of a study into the practice. More: The pill ...

Roughly 1 in 3 women douche, but there is no good health reason to do so. Douching can change the makeup of the bacteria that normally live in the vagina, and it can even make women more susceptible ...

New research adds yet another reason to the list of why women should reconsider douching. Douching—defined as the washing of the vagina with water or a fluid mixture—is widely discouraged by medical ...

Douching has been a controversial subject for some time now. Is it safe or isn’t it? Even though its purpose is to clean you from the inside out, most gynecologists don’t condone it because it messes ...

Women trying to become pregnant might think twice about douching, suggests new research that links the practice with monthly fertility drops of as much as 50 percent. The National Institutes of Health ...